>>>Hi there,
>>>
>>>I want to send data through the com-port to a customer-display.
>>>I know that I can use mscoom.ocx or something similar but as I am trying
>>>to avoid using controls I was wondering if there is a win-api I could use directly?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>Thomas
>>
>>This may be old school, but
>>
>>COPY file TO COM1:
>>
>>if I recall from the foxbase days.
>
>Then avoid disk access altogether and strtofile(lcString, "COM1:"). Worth a try.

I guess one could use the Low-level file functions too. FOpen("COM1:")